We live in a strange time. Problems are piling up, but the ability to analyse the world in a calm and rational mood and to discuss solutions seriously is declining dramatically fast. Sidebars are increasingly more important than the battles that actually need to be fought. …
Last week marked the twentieth anniversary of Argentina’s currency crisis of 2001, which brought the country to the brink of ungovernability and caused enormous social and political harm. President Fernando de la Rúa finally resigned on December 21, 2001. Just “in time” for this anniversary, …
Eastern Europe has become the talk of the political town. While it was hoped in the West that the region would become a new power house in Europe after the Great Reunification in the early 1990s, from which the West would then also benefit, …
The climate conference in Glasgow has come to an end without having produced a major breakthrough in climate protection. The politicians who negotiated for two weeks believe they have taken another step in the right direction. Climate activists, on the other hand, …
